Politicians shouldn’t try to fight a war and even the best intentioned amateurs shouldn’t try to be negotiators.
You need a lawyer to fight a lawyer and the one who represents themselves has a fool for a client.
Playing this drama in Adagio was a poor tactic.
What did you expect?
Forced into arbitration to be ruled on by an 83(?) year old who apparently does this by himself as a medical issue delayed the process by a month. That in itself was a major red flag and a big indicator that this would go “Kalitta” as that was the last offer the Company made.